CEPR News

Dr. Christine Friedenreich was elected as the incoming chairperson of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Scientific Council. “The chairperson of the IARC Scientific Council plays a key role in guiding the scientific governance of the Agency,” says IARC Director Dr Elisabete Weiderpass. http://governance.iarc.fr/SC/index.php In addition: Dr. Friedenreich was the Chair of the Review Panel…

A recent grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) will support recruitment of additional patients for the AMBER study and longer monitoring. https://www.ucalgary.ca/utoday/issue/2018-02-15/lets-get-physical-breast-cancer-survivors-needed-research-study

CEPR’s Dr. Karen Kopciuk, together with Dr Huiming Yang and their colleagues, were recently awarded a Strategic Clinical Network (SCN) seed grant entitled: Test of cure: Use of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) testing to optimize the cervical cancer screening clinical pathway post-treatment. This grant was one of four grants recently awarded by the SCN for which there was…

Dr. Darren Brenner has accepted a new position as a Molecular Epidemiologist/Assistant Professor with the Department of Oncology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. Dr. Brenner will continue to collaborate closely with CEPR, and will split his office time between our department and the University of Calgary. This position also includes an Investigatorship in Molecular Epidemiology…

Congratulations to Dr. Christine Friedenreich, who has been elected as a member of the Scientific Council of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (www.iarc.fr) for a four year period starting in January 2018. The principal responsibilities of Scientific Council members are the evaluation of the scientific activities of the Agency and the provision of scientific…

Congratulations to Dr. Jessica McNeil for receiving a Howard Research Excellence Award from the Charbonneau Cancer Institute. These awards are provided to trainees to recognize their excellence in research productivity in 2017. Jessica will be receiving this award at the Charbonneau Cancer Institute’s Research Symposium on February 2, 2018 at which time she will also…

We are extremely happy to announce that Ms. Tayler Scory has been awarded a Department of Mathematics and Statistics Graduate Assistant Teaching Excellence Award for her work in the Winter 2016 term. All of her students in STAT 505 Time Series Analysis class nominated her for this prestigious award that recognizes her commitment to excellence…

Dr Darren Brenner has been appointed the new Scientific Lead for the Epidemiology Research Unit within the Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Research effective September 1, 2016. Dr Brenner has been a Research Scientist with our department since January 2015. It is in recognition of his leadership in the department and skills as a…

Congratulations to Dr. Karen Kopciuk, Dr. Paula Robson, Dr. Lorraine Shack, and Dr. John Spinelli on receiving a CIHR grant for their study, “Determinants of cancer stage at diagnosis”. When cancer is caught early, the treatments are easier and the cancer can often be removed and cured. This study wants to find out why some…

Longlong Huang, a doctoral student in statistics at the University of Calgary who is supervised by Dr. Xuewen Lu and Dr. Karen A. Kopciuk was awarded Best Oral Student Research Presentation at the annual meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) meeting at Brock University last week. Her talk was entitled “A Group Bridge…